Norm Cash 1961
First baseman Norm Cash in 1961.
In 1948, the A.L. Batting Champion was Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, with a .369 average. The N.L. Batting Champion was Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals with a .376 average. In 1949, George Kell of the Detroit Tigers won the A.L. Batting Title with a .343 average.
Magglio Ordonez of the Detroit Tigers
The dubious honor of the lowest batting average while still qualifying for the batting title belongs to Rob Deer. In 1991, playing for the Detroit Tigers, Deer batted .179 in 539 plate appearances.
Bill Madlock won the 1976 National League Batting title with a .339 batting average, and George Brett won the 1976 American League batting title with a .333 batting Average.
In 1928, Goose Goslin of the Washington Senators won the A.L. Batting Title with a .379 average. The National League winner was Rogers Hornsby of the Boston Braves with a .387 average.
Chipper Jones won the 2008 National League Batting title with a .364 batting average, and Joe Mauerwon the 2008 American League batting title with a .328 batting Average.
Hanley Ramirez won the 2009 National League Batting title with a .342 batting average, and Joe Mauer won the 2009 American League batting title with a .365 batting Average.
Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox hit .301 to win the batting title in 1968.
That is Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers who was the American League batting champion in 1955, with an average of .340, at the age of 20. Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers also won a batting title, in 1907 with an average of .350, at the age of 20 but was 12 days older than Kaline at the end of the season. Kaline was born December 19, 1934 and won the title on September 25, 1955, the final game of the season. Cobb was born on December 18, 1886 and won the title on October 6, 1907, the final day of the season.
Al Kaline won the 1955 American League batting title with a .340 batting Average.
In 1876 Ross Barnes won the first National League batting title with a .429 batting average.